The Lovers on the Bridge
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Short description
The Lovers on the Bridge centres on Alex, a former circus performer who sleeps rough on the Pont-Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris, and supports himself by breathing fire for passers-by. He is dependent on alcohol and sedatives. While the bridge is closed for repairs, he encounters Michèle, a painter who has left her home and friends after a failed relationship and a degenerative eye condition that is steadily taking her sight. The two drift together into an intense romance, sealed off from the city around them.
Leos Carax wrote and directed the film, his third feature, following Boy Meets Girl in 1984 and Mauvais Sang in 1986. Juliette Binoche plays Michèle and Denis Lavant plays Alex, with Klaus-Michael Grüber as Hans, Daniel Buain as Alex's friend, and Edith Scob and Georges Aperghis as a couple in a car among the credited cast of 22. Christian Fechner produced; the production companies were Films A2, Gaumont International and Les Films Christian Fechner.
Released in France in October 1991 and running 126 minutes, the film was a large-scale undertaking for its time, with a budget of about 28 million dollars. On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 7.2 out of 10 from 21 reviews, while on TMDB it stands at 7.4 out of 10 from 393 votes, a narrow gap that suggests a comparable response from reviewers and audiences.
What's left behind the scenes
- More than half the budget was spent recreating the celebratory fireworks display for the bicentennial of the French Revolution on July 14, 1989.
- Initially, director Leos Carax received official permission to film on the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris (the oldest surviving bridge there across the Seine, built in the 16th-17th centuries). However, the permit expired before filming even began, so the bridge had to be built from scratch on a lake near Montpellier. The construction of a replica of the Pont Neuf and the facades of the surrounding buildings made this film one of the most expensive in the history of French cinema.
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